The 2008 Guolian Securities Jiangsu Classic was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4 and 8 June 2008 in two cities in the Jiangsu Province, China.

The round-robin stage consisted of two groups of six players, eight top 16 players and four Chinese wild cards. The final was staged at the Wuxi Sports Center in Wuxi, while the rest of the tournament had been held at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Nanjing.

Ding Junhui, the only player to have won all his matches, delighted his home crowd by taking the title with a tense final frame decider defeat of Mark Selby. __TOC__

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: Winner: £20,000 Runner-Up: £9,000 Semi-final: £4,000 3rd place in group: £2,000 4th place in group: £1,000 Appearance Fees for 8 professionals: £2,500 Highest break: £1,000 Total: £64,000

Round-robin stage

Group A

POSPlayerMPMWFWFLFDPTS1 Joe Perry55102+852 Ryan Day5484+443 Jin Long5266024 Shaun Murphy5257−225 Liang Wenbo5148−416 Neil Robertson5139−61

(breaks above 50 shown between brackets), breaks 100 and above will be indicated bold.

Shaun Murphy 2–0 Jin Long → (80) 137–0, (65) 107–0 Neil Robertson 0–2 Liang Wenbo → 54–59, 3–115 (89) Ryan Day 0–2 Joe Perry → 43–65, 9–63 (62) Shaun Murphy 2–1 Liang Wenbo → 72–52, 1–85 (76), 69–18 Ryan Day 2–1 Neil Robertson → 73–50, 30–68 (64), (59) 68–23 Shaun Murphy 1–2 Neil Robertson → 7–81, 72-(52), 37–71 Joe Perry 2–1 Jin Long → 72–23, 40–72, 77–40 Ryan Day 2–1 Jin Long → 0-(86), (100)-0, (73) 77–0 Joe Perry 2–1 Liang Wenbo → 40–76, 61–44, (77) 83–1 Ryan Day 2–0 Liang Wenbo → (91) 92–28, (89)-20 Shaun Murphy 0–2 Joe Perry → 44–64, ?-? Neil Robertson 0–2 Jin Long → 26–59 (59), 8–92 Liang Wenbo 0–2 Jin Long → 40–80, 0–91 (62) Neil Robertson 0–2 Joe Perry → 6–94, 43–92 (81) Shaun Murphy 0–2 Ryan Day → 7–98 (62), 58–70

Group B

POSPlayerMPMWFWFLFDPTS1 Ding Junhui55102+852 Mark Selby5376+133 Peter Ebdon5278−124 Liu Chuang5257−225 Ali Carter5258−326 Li Hang5158−31

(breaks above 50 shown between brackets), breaks 100 and above will be indicated bold.

Mark Selby 2–1 → Li Hang 57–7, 2–66 (64), (100) 119–4 Peter Ebdon 1–2 Liu Chuang → (66) 79–25, (53)-55, 35–59 Ali Carter 0–2 Ding Junhui → 15–109 (108), 2–64 Mark Selby 2–0 Liu Chuang → (102) 111–0, (86)-33 Ali Carter 2–1 Peter Ebdon → (68) 69–0, 0–102 (93), 68–35 Ding Junhui 2–1 Li Hang → (72)-0, 31–70 (54), 85–44 Mark Selby 1–2 Peter Ebdon → 71–43, 16-(100), 20–82 (68) Ali Carter 0–2 Li Hang → 0–79 (75), 4–50 Ding Junhui 2–0 Liu Chuang → (77) 78–11, 61–54 Ali Carter 2–1 Liu Chuang → 68–52, 23–72, 62–55 Mark Selby 0–2 Ding Junhui → 10-(110), 30–69 Peter Ebdon 2–1 Li Hang → (60) 84–8, 35–73, 66–17 Liu Chuang 2–0 Li Hang → 68–8, 65–18 Peter Ebdon 1–2 Ding Junhui → 2–76, (59) 77–0, 66–68 Mark Selby 2–1 Ali Carter → (62) 67–24, 0–124 (52,72), (72)-1

Knock-out stages

* 32–71, (51) 75–43, 1–75 (52), 1–81 (74), 22–97 (81) ** (52) 75–21, (81) 85–0, (75) 120–1, (108) 120–0

Final Final: Best of 11 frames.Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium, Wuxi, China, 8 June 2008. Mark Selby 5–6 Ding Junhui 63–50, 52–60, 67–41, , , 49–70 (70), 85–44 (64), , , 85 Highest break 70 0 Century breaks 0 4 50+ breaks 4

Century breaks

110, 108, 108 Ding Junhui 102, 100 Mark Selby 100 Ryan Day 100 Peter Ebdon

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